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“Calm down Royal, we all know you’re the future King of the family and all that shit.” I glare at Havoc as he saunters back into the room with a towel wrapped around his waist water dripping everywhere.
“You’re leaving footprints on my carpet!” I scold. The asshole comes closer and shakes his hair, flicking water droplets all over me, Chaos laughs at his stupid ass twin, I strike out and punch the asshole in the arm.
“You sound like Aunt Ally;you boys stop playing ball in the house.” We all laugh at his impression of our aunt. We haven’t been home in a long time, the last time was months ago to celebrate Meela graduating and becoming a doctor, she is crazy fucking smart but due to the age gap between her and the four of us we never really hung out much. Destiny is three years younger than us, she’s seventeen. Uncle Gage and Aunt Anya are pushing her to become a lawyer but Dest isn’t having any of that and wants to be an MMA fighter, we all know secretly Uncle G is thrilled at the idea. Nytress and Unique are fifteen and sixteen and only care about cheerleading, Uncle Rook is trying to convince them that they don’t need college and to stay home with him. Honestly, my poor cousins are going to rebel so hard when they finally get their freedom from their dad.
The door to my dorm bursts open and Chanel rushes in with a panicked look in her eyes, Havoc, Chaos, and I are on her in seconds.
“What happened?”
“Who did it?”
“Are you hurt?” We all ask at the same time, she shakes her head and pushes through us and rushes to my bedside table, grabs the remote and flicks the TV on turning it straight to the news.
“Chanel—.”
She cuts me off. “Shut up and listen Royal.” She turns the volume up and the three of them creep in closer to see what has her panties in a twist.
“Just in, the plane that alleged mafia boss, Bishop Murdoch and his brothers, King, Knight, Rook, Gage, and his brother-in-law Vincent Murelo were traveling on from Miami to New York has gone down.”My heart stops.“Police and fire were first to the scene and sources say the bodies of the six passengers have not been located leaving the other four crew members injured and in critical care. The captain and co-captain didn’t make it, now over to Jenny who has the local police chief with her, Jenny.”The camera switches over to another woman who stands with the wrecked plane at her back and a man in a police uniform beside her.
“Thank you, Kelly, I’m here with police chief Lawrance. What can you tell us about the missing passengers?”
“We’ve found five sets of tire tracks that come in one way and out another. We believe that the six passengers have been taken and that this isn’t some random crash, we believe this flight was targeted—. My cell ringing pulls me away from the TV, when I see my mom’s name, I quickly answer it.
“Mom, what the hell is going on?” I snap instead of a greeting.
“Royal, it’s your father–.” My mom is one of the toughest people I know and she isn’t scared of shit, she can make my father bend to her will with one look. Hearing the fear in her voice has me clutching the phone so tight I fear I’ll snap it. When the others crowd around me, I put it on speakerphone. “The plane went down and they–,”
“I know, we just saw it on the news,” I say, cutting her off.
“You and your cousins need to get on the next flight out of Utah and come home.” The four of us exchanged a loaded look before I ask.
“What the hell is going on mom? Tell me the truth.” My voice is cold and emotionless, whenever I panic or worry, I’m somehow able to shut all my emotions off and feel nothing, it’s a blessing for me and it will be a curse for the fuckers that took my father, I’ll kill them all.
“I just received a video, your father and uncles have been taken by a cousin of mine I didn’t even know existed.”
“I thought Grandpa killed all your family?”
“We did as well son, apparently he missed one onhisside and now he has come after us.” Hearing her sniffle and the fact she is crying kills me to not be there with her.
“We’ll kill the son of a bitch for thinking he could ever fuck with our family.” Chaos snarls and the rest of us hum our agreement.
“That’s all well and good, except the bastard is the Governor of Miami!” I shoot each of my cousins a look asking if they are ready for what is about to happen, each of them nod.
“We’ll be on the next flight out.” I growl.
“Royal?”
“Yeah, mom?”
“I won’t survive losing him.” She sobs, my mom loves my dad with every beat of her heart, their love makes me never want to settle for anything less. They have set the bar so high that I fear no woman will ever reach it which is why I have never tried to settle down.
“You won’t have to, I’m my father’s son and I swear to you, I’ll burn the fucking city to the ground until I find the bastard who dared to fuck with us. We are Murdoch’s and we never fucking give up!”
* * *
The four of us have barely spoken the whole way home, unlike the three of them I don’t allow my emotions to control me, I use those feelings as fuel to anchor me. Some crumble under the pressure of grief but not me, my focus sharpens and everything else becomes white noise as I focus on my target and exact my revenge. Only then do I come out of my haze and focus again.
The car comes to a stop out front of my mom and dad’s house, none of us move as we gaze up at the family home we all grew up in.
